I am sure that pdftk would be able to do what you need. I used this once for a slightly different process a couple years ago and it worked fine. Of course you would need to write the command line to do just what you want.

I am sure that pdftk would be able to do what you need. I used this once for a slightly different process a couple years ago and it worked fine. Of course you would need to write the command line to do just what you want.

FWIW you probably need to remember that this isn't a pdf authoring tool in the style of acrobat, so bookmarks are likely to be a challenge (by doing this you're effectively building a completley new document)

I'd need to read up on pdftk to be sure but I suspect this might be beyond PDFTK's capabilities (as others have said, PDF's are a bear to deal with)

FWIW you probably need to remember that this isn't a pdf authoring tool in the style of acrobat, so bookmarks are likely to be a challenge (by doing this you're effectively building a completley new document)

I'd need to read up on pdftk to be sure but I suspect this might be beyond PDFTK's capabilities (as others have said, PDF's are a bear to deal with)

So the "target" may be reassure the bookmarks with a compatible tool or reconstruct in any possible way.

In my actual experience the bookmarks and index when mounting several pdf with acrobat seems a matter of "stravaganza" or insecure results. Sometimes i obtain index without bookmarks o even i can lose the bookmarks.

So all we need i suppose is a complementary tool to do this after assemble the final pdf.

I don't know much about authoring PDF's (I have tolerate/hate relationship with the format) so others might be able to comment, but logically I would assume that you would have to rebuild any/all links when your combining content like this. Clearly there is going to be new content, and existing content is going to move around, so any pre-existing indexing will almost certainly be redundant.

Indexing aside, can I assume that the script is working as advertised as far as the splitting and merging part goes?

I don't know much about authoring PDF's (I have tolerate/hate relationship with the format) so others might be able to comment, but logically I would assume that you would have to rebuild any/all links when your combining content like this. Clearly there is going to be new content, and existing content is going to move around, so any pre-existing indexing will almost certainly be redundant.

Indexing aside, can I assume that the script is working as advertised as far as the splitting and merging part goes?